Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-09-10
|TIIE QUEENS OF HOME.
DIR. TALMAeE BREACHES AT
THE HAMPTONS.

Woman Has the Special Right to Com.
: 57:ss the sack. to Care for tho Poor md
sto Solicit Chsritics-Iu,bands Should
: sGenflde ThoIr Troubles to Their Wives.
ns HAMproNs. Sept 4.-The Row. DR..
ssstDoslSitt TalIuuge's text today was froas
solomoir's Song, vi, 8: aThero arc three
score queeiis.n Following IS the sermon in
ls1fs Sol Solelnon, bpono stroke, sct forth the
lInperaa! character OF a true Chrkrlau women.
,6lg t5not a alavo, NOT MssliiKA nps Sui.
ordinate, bat queens and IN nsy text Solo.
moa;sees sixty Of these helptaX to make up
tie;to5al pageant OF Jesus In FORMER ser-
inonI showed you ::tiias crown and .courtly
-Stselisl llts:und Imperial wardrob were mot
EscessSa:y make q; ueel;; but that gracees
md u e. VIII Ave coronation ito
4 tagS woman. Showed You at some; length
fdat wolnnn's position was higher in tile world
! than nali'Si and that although she had often
Deem denied tierigLt oil suffrage, SHE always
Gid VOTE nl alwaySwould vote by her jnffu-
sence: aI,i That her chief desire ought to be
thnt she should have grace rightly to rulo in
the dominion Which she lias already won. I
began an enumeration OF some of her rights,
and this morning resume tile subject
In the first pl.co, woman has the special
|sanl the supcrlative right-not again ;ons
pack to Whit | have already said-wonai
Inns tbs special and supcrlntive right of bless
and comforting the sick
IL Whit lanl, what street, what house has
lanot felt the snitinss OF dseasol Tens of
i thousands OF sick beds! What shall we do
Iswilh them. Shall man, with his rough hand
iSanl clumsy foot, go stumbling around the
sick room, trying to sootho the distracted
NERVES anu alleviate tho pains of the tossing
ipascntf The young man at college may
SCOT at the i'lcti of being under maternal in-
Is1uencrs, but ut the first blust Of the typhoid
lefeyor on his check ho snys: "Where Is
motllorP Walter Scott wrote partly in
jsatire and partly in compliment when he said:
woman, in our hour1 Of case
II uncertstn, coy and hard to please;
When piin and angISh wiring the brow,
Administering snsd thou.
+ Think the most pathetic passage in all tho
lsBiblo is the description OF the lad who went
Tout to the harvest field Of Shunem and got
MISUNDERSTANDING Ills hands OH his temples
md CRYING out: ooh, my head my hcadl"
lsoHd they said: ICTry him to his mother.n
And then tho record is: 3He sat on her knees
It'll noon, and then died" 1t is Gil awful
thing TO be III away from home in q strange
|5hotel, once in a while men coming in to look
at yop, holding their hand over thcir mouth
Flor fear they Will catch the contagon. How
roughly they turn you i'll bed How loudly
they talk. How you long for the ministries
of homo. l know ono such who went away
from ono of Fle brightest OF holNes
for several weeks business absence
at tue west A telegram came at mid
night that he was OH his death bed,
far away from home. By express trnin the
gwifo and daughters went westward; but they
went too late. He feared not to die, but he
was III an agony to live until his family got
there. Hc tried to bride the doctor to make
Ehim live little while longer. He said: AZ
am willing to die but not alone.n But tho
ipulses fluttered, the eyes closed md the h:a-.
LdRugbstaaTdl and ndi'ifg father Coming
eastward. Oh, it was sad, pitiful, over
whelming spoctaclcl When we are sick we
want to be sick at home. When the time
comes for us to die, o want to
die at home The room may be very
humble, and TIE faces that look into
ours may be very plain but who cares for
that, Loving hands 10 bathe the temples.
Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving
lips to read tho comforting promises Of Jesus.
In our last dreadful var, naen cast the can
non: men fashioned the muskotry; men cried
to the hosts: 'Forwari. march," men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges of the
enemy, crying: 1Chspsel charge" bus werts9a
seraaesl thu lint; wnsra1 aiSsslississarpsf tafist
eordsais, sron,aA -1a4s,si h. ess &sf3ss
,puDb4 Vopan Srots the lsst R1c$sagn to ths
homo csfcse: woman wcpt Mt the solitary
burial attended by herself and four men with
spade We greeted tho general home
with brass bands, and triunphal arches,
and wild huzzas; but the story L.
too good to he written anywhere,
save III the chronicles OF heaven, of
Mrs Brady, who camc down among the sick
in the swamps OF the Chickahomny; Of
Annie Ross, in the cooper shop hospital; Of
Margaret Breckenridge, who came to men
who had becii for weeks with their wounds
undresseti-somo of them frozen to the
ground, aud when Jic turned them over those
that had ui arIm left waved it and filled tho
air with their "hurrah;" Of 1Jrs. Holgc, who
cano from Chicago with blankets and with
pillows, until the nen shouted: "Tllrec cheers
for the Christian commission! God bless the
women at homc,n then sitting down to take
the last message: "Tel my wife not to fret
about ME, but to meet me in heaven; tell her
to train up tile boys whom wc have loved so
we'll; tell her we shall meet again in tho good
land; tell her to bear my loss Lille the Chris
tian wife of Christian soldier" and of Mrs.
Shelton, into whose face the convalescent
| soldier Looked and said: "Your grapes
and cologne cured mo.n Men did
their work with shot; and shell, and cnrbine,
| and howi:1cr; women did their work with
socks, and slippers, and bandnges, aed warm
drinks, and Scripture texts, and gentle stroiS-
ings Of the ho$ temples, nnd stories of that
lnlid whero they never hnvc any pain. Zion
knelt down over tho wounded and said:- "On
which $50 did you fght'S- Women knelt
down ever tho wouadcd esid said: "Whcre
are YOU hurss What nice ching Gun make
for you to cat? What makes you crys' To-
night, willie we mon alc sound assep Ill our
beds, there will be light in yondcr loft;
thens will be grooming down that dark alley;
! there will be cries OF distress in that cellar.
! Men will sleep and women will watch.
Again: woman hus superlative right to
take care of tho poor There are hundreds
and thousands of them all over tho land.
There is II kind Of work that men cannot do
for the poor. Here comes n group of little
barefoot children to the door of tic Dorcas so
ciety. They need to no clothed and provided
for. Which of these directors of banks would
know how many yards it would take to make
Chat little girl O dreasl Which of these mas
culine hands could at q hat to that little
GIRLS head? Which OF the wise men would
| tnou how to tie on that new pair OF
shoes? Man sometimes gives his charlsy
in rough way, and it falls like the
fruit of a tree in the cest, which fruit comes
down so heavily that it breaks the Skull
of the mai who is trying to gather it,. But
woman glics so softly into the hosse Of dcs-
titution, aud finds out all the sorrows OF the
place, and puts so quietly the donation on the
tnble. that oil the family come out ON the